Litoria rueppelli (Boettger, 1895)
Hyla rueppelli Boettger, 1895, Zool. Anz., 18: 137. Syntypes: SMF (5 specimens); also BMNH 95.10.26.19-22 according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 95; SMF 2614 designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 42. Type locality: "Nord-Halmahaira [sic]", corrected to "Kau, N-Halmaheira, Moluccas", Indonesia by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 147.
Nyctimystes rueppelli — Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 36.
Litoria rueppelli — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.
English Names
Rueppel's Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).
Distribution
Halmahera and Morotai Islands in the Moluccas, Indonesia.
Comment
For discussion see Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 36 (as Nyctimystes rueppelli). Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 166, provided a brief account. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 264.
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